Family Potluck - Full Plate Family

Disciplining Your Child @PeainthePodcast

"How you plan to discipline your child isn’t something you can really improvise. You do need think about it. You need to talk about it with your partner. You may find you have vastly different ideas about how to discipline your child than your partner does, and you’ll need to talk those through. You will need to make choices, and you will need to inform your family and extended support system about the choices you’ve made.  Why am I writing about this today? Two recent studies have been on my mind, and I wanted to share them with you.  First, there’s this..."
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Source: Pea In The Podcast Blog

Guidelines and Resources for Determining Kids’ Allowances

"Teaching kids about the value of money is one of the greatest lessons parents can impart. With a healthy attitude towards money, kids will enter adulthood with the knowledge of smart money management,sensible spending parameters and the importance of saving.There are reports that Malia and Sasha Obama get $1 each for their weekly allowance. Maybe it’s time for the President to loosen the purse strings a little bit! $1 seems a bit meager for kids that age, but it got me wondering about allowances in general and what the guidelines are for allocation..."
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Source: Momaroo

Bribing Children - Risk for Rewards

"Call it a reward, or just "bribery." Whichever it is, many parents today readily admit to buying off their children, who get goodies for anything from behaving in a restaurant to sleeping all night in their own beds. Often, the rewards are for behaviors their own parents would have simply expected, just because they said so. The new dynamic — sometimes seen as a backlash to that strictness — has some parenting experts wondering if today's parents have gone too soft."
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Source: Martha Irvine AP National Writer

Resources:
Adelphi: http://www.adelphi.edu/parentinginstitute/
Zero to Three: http://www.zerotothree.org